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SANAA

SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is a multiple award-winning architectural firm based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1995 by two Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima (妹島 和世 1956-) and Ryue Nishizawa (西沢立衛 1966-). In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Pritzker Prize. Examples of their work include the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY; the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne; the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando in Tokyo; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa; and the Louvre-Lens Museum in France.

Biography

In 1995, Kazuyo Sejima (born in 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (born in 1966) founded SANAA. Examples of their groundbreaking work include, among others, the Rolex Learning Center at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion in Toledo, Ohio; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY: the Serpentine Pavilion in London; the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando in Tokyo; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. They later won the Golden Lion in 2004 for the most significant work in the Ninth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In 2010, they were awarded the Pritzker Prize, which made Sejima the second female to win this prize.Chika-Chika doomn

Sana'a is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. At an altitude of 2,300 metres (7,500ft), it is also one of the highest capital cities in the world. Sana'a has a population of approximately 1,937,500 (2012), making it Yemen's largest city.

The old city of Sana'a, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site, has a distinctive visual character due to its unique architectural characteristics, most notably expressed in its multi-storey buildings decorated with geometric patterns. In the conflict that raged in 2015, bombs hit UNESCO sites. Located here is the Great Mosque of Sana'a, the largest in the city.

Rio Ticino

Out on the banksOf the Rio TicinoStanding in front ofThe 3 Kings HotelLooking outAt the town of CastellettoWondering aboutWhat HappenedOver ThereSteam like smokeIs out on the waterRise'n up whiteLike fingers in the airAnd birds flock on boatsThat float on the waterAnd you wonder aboutWhat HappenedOver ThereOn the opposite banksOf the Rio TicinoStanding in front ofThe wall where they fellDuring a warWe all seem to like nowAnd you wonder aboutWhat HappenedOver HereSteam like smokeIs out on the waterRise'n up whiteLike ghosts in the airAnd birds flock on boatsThat float on the waterAnd you wonder aboutWhat Happens

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SANAA - Yemen's rival negotiators in the United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Sweden agreed on Saturday to prepare for a prisoner exchange as debates began over the reopening of Sanaa airport, Houthi-run Sam FM Radio station reported ... We, in return, proposed to place Sanaa ......

In an online interview from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, radio reporter Ali Shahari told me coalition planes have destroyed massive amounts of infrastructure and caused the deaths of tens of thousands ... food production and distribution in the areas under the control of Sanaa.”....

SANAA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a Houthi-controlled military base in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday, residents said ... The attack was the latest in a series of airstrikes targeting the rebel-held Sanaa by the Saudi-led coalition....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni rights advocates are reporting that two of the country’s most prominent activists have been detained and taken to an undisclosed location at an airport in western Yemen ... The detained duo runs Sanaa-based ......

The Saudi-led warplanes continued swooping low and hovering over Sanaa airspace for hours, creating panic among students in schools, the residents said ... Houthi-run media outlets confirmed that several Saudi-led airstrikes pounded Sanaa, leading to broadcasting interruption of local radio station after targeting its aerials....

SANAA - The radio station of Yemen’s Houthi-run interior ministry said on Monday the militia’s former war ally turned adversary, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed as fighting racked the capital Sanaa though there was no independent confirmation....

Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in the capital, Sanaa, according to the radio station of the Houthi-controlled interior ministry. Footage circulating on social media on Monday appeared [Read More] ... ....

SANAA... The strike "led to the total destruction of the VOR/DMEradio navigation system, taking it offline and thus halting the only flights at Sanaa airport -- those of the United Nations and other international organisations delivering humanitarian assistance," the rebel-run General Authority for Civil Aviation said in a statement....